Your ability to be and think creatively is not limited to making art.  You are creative and you have the capacity to think and respond creatively.   While you may not rely on or activate your creative self, you have the potential within you to create more than you can imagine.

Being  comfortable in the unknown and unfamiliar requires enormous courage.  Most people in times of uncertainty react quickly to fill the space with something familiar.  Most people want to know what they can hold onto and rely on.  No new thinking is required and life goes on relatively uninterrupted, familiar.  It all works until it doesn’t and something else is needed.  Now something else is desperately needed.  What used to work will not work going forward.  What we counted on before we can not count on now.

Creation is a generative process, messy and dark and filled with uncertainty.  If you have courage and are open to what could be and sit for a while in the discomfort of the unfamiliar, you are taking the step to shift to something new and create your future.  You must trust that in order to create something new it will never feel familiar.  It will never be easy and it will never be comfortable.  It will be important and it is what is needed today.  If you want to bury your head in the sand or live in fear or denial, continue on as you were going.  Walk the same paths you have always walked.  But if you are willing to be uncomfortable and listen to deeper parts of yourself you can create a new path forward that will serve you and humanity tomorrow.  I am choosing to create a new path and explore a new way of being and see what can emerge.